Kate Winslet directs and stars in Goodbye June (now on Netflix), a holiday weepie dramedy about a family bearing down to say goodbye to their dying matriarch. At first blush, it’s a star-studded ...

Considering the fact that Kate Winslet’s directorial debut, Goodbye June is set around the Christmas season it seems entirely appropriate for Netflix to debut it on the streaming service Christmas Eve ...

There’s a moment in “Goodbye June” where Kate Winslet sits in a hospital corridor and says: “If someone asked what this felt like I don’t think I’d be able to describe it, waiting for someone to die.” ...

Kate Winslet is due a very thoughtful Christmas gift this year. The veteran actor made a pretty extraordinary maternal gesture, directing, producing and starring in a film her son, Joe Anders, wrote, ...

It isn’t that myriad aspects of the story told in the family drama “Goodbye June” won’t prove relatable to many who watch it. They will. It isn’t that the film — debuting on Netflix this week after a ...

Winslet stars in the film as well. She portrays Julia, an ever-so busy mom who finds her life at a crossroads as her own mom, June (Helen Mirren), lays in a hospital bed with terminal cancer. June’s ...

Kate Winslet teams up with son Joe Anders for her new movie "Goodbye June," which streams Wednesday, Dec. 24, on Netflix. The film is Winslet's directorial debut and her son wrote the screenplay.

The star enlists an enviable big-name ensemble to enliven a script by her 21-year-old son Joe Anders, but they can't mask the shallow sentimentality of the material. The not-cancer-free mother in this ...

Rating: **** ½   I came to  swoon , and none too soon, over Goodbye June after hearing it being called everything from trite to  a product  of nepotism. Sure, just because  Kate Winslet’s son wrote ...